Many HTTP/1.1 header field values consist of words separated by LWS or special
characters. These special characters MUST be in a quoted string to be used within
a parameter value (as defined in section 3.6).

Parameters

Public Methods

Creates and returns a copy of this Object. The default
implementation returns a so-called "shallow" copy: It creates a new
instance of the same class and then copies the field values (including
object references) from this instance to the new instance. A "deep" copy,
in contrast, would also recursively clone nested objects. A subclass that
needs to implement this kind of cloning should call super.clone()
to create the new instance and then create deep copies of the nested,
mutable objects.

Returns

a copy of this object.

Throws

Compares this instance with the specified object and indicates if they
are equal. In order to be equal, o must represent the same object
as this instance using a class-specific comparison. The general contract
is that this comparison should be reflexive, symmetric, and transitive.
Also, no object reference other than null is equal to null.

The general contract for the equals and hashCode() methods is that if equals returns true for
any two objects, then hashCode() must return the same value for
these objects. This means that subclasses of Object usually
override either both methods or neither of them.

Parameters

object

the object to compare this instance with.

Returns

true if the specified object is equal to this Object; false otherwise.

Returns

Returns

public
int
hashCode()

Returns an integer hash code for this object. By contract, any two
objects for which equals(Object) returns true must return
the same hash code value. This means that subclasses of Object
usually override both methods or neither method.

Note that hash values must not change over time unless information used in equals
comparisons also changes.